>And where the hell are you getting this 75k/sec thing anyways? My old >compuadd 486DX33 desktop can EASILY handle a large file (e.g. > 100mb) >transfer from my 4x CDROM to the hard drive. Hrm, more math: 150k x >4 = 600kbytes/sec. But I guess that isn't real-life, eh :)? No... 40MB a sec with UltraSCSI and a DVD-RAM drive is real-life... :)